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Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010) Teaching Rank-Based Tests by Emphasizing Structural Similarities to Corresponding Parametric Tests DeWayne R. Derryberry Sue B. Schou Idaho State University W. J. Conover Texas Tech University Journal of Statistics Education Volume 18, Number 1 (2010), www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n1/derryberry.pdf Copyright © 2010 by DeWayne R. Derryberry, Sue B. Schou, and W. J. Conover all rights reserved. This text may be freely shared among individuals, but it may not be republished in any medium without express written consent from the authors and advance notification of the editor. Key Words: Hypothesis Test; Nonparametric Test; Pedagogy; Skewness; Outliers. Abstract Students learn to examine the distributional assumptions implicit in the usual t-tests and associated confidence intervals, but are rarely shown what to do when those assumptions are grossly violated. Three data sets are presented. Each data set involves a different distributional anomaly and each illustrates the use of a different nonparametric test. The problems illustrated are well–known, but the formulations of the nonparametric tests given here are different from the large sample formulas usually presented. We restructure the common rank-based tests to emphasize structural similarities between large sample rank-based tests and their parametric analogs. By presenting large sample nonparametric tests as slight extensions of their parametric counterparts, it is hoped that nonparametric methods receive a wider audience. 1. Introduction Rank-based nonparametric tests were discovered in the 1940’s by Wilcoxon, who realized that outliers created problems when employing parametric tests (Salzburg, 2001). Wilcoxon provided a strong impetus for using ranks in nonparametric inference about the 1 Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010) same time as many other researchers including Mann and Whitney in 1947, Festinger in 1946, White in 1952, van der Reydn in 1952, as well as Kruskal and Wallis in 1952 (Conover, 1999). Though these tests generally rely on elementary statistical concepts and college algebra, most entry level students are not exposed to this class of inference. Since there are fewer assumptions for rank based tests and they perform almost as well as, and often much better than, parametric tests, the authors wish to make a case for teaching this class of tests in conjunction with parametric tests in lower level statistics courses. In addition, these tests could easily serve as an advanced topic in Advanced Placement statistics courses. The authors will revisit Conover and Iman (1981) and offer a related approach. Both approaches offer a much improved method of teaching nonparametric inference. Although nonparametric statistics are not currently an official part of the AP statistics curriculum, they are included as optional material in many textbooks at that level (DeVore and Peck, 2008; Moore, 2010; Utts and Heckard, 2007). Incorporating the ideas in this paper should make these optional chapters more attractive. 2. Advantages of rank-based methods Rank-based procedures are a subset of nonparametric procedures that have three strengths: 1) as nonparametric procedures, they are preferred when certain assumptions of parametric procedures (the usual t- and F- tests) are grossly violated (example: normality assumption when the data set has outliers), 2) rank-based methods are some of the most powerful nonparametric methods, often having nearly as much power as parametric methods when the assumptions of parametric methods are met, and often having more power when the data come from non-normal populations, and 3) rank-based methods can be presented in a way that provides a natural transition for students familiar with parametric methods. The rank-based tests discussed in this paper require fewer “shape” assumptions than their parametric alternatives. For matched-pairs data, the parametric approach involves computing the differences within pairs and performing a one-sample t-test. This test involves the assumption that differences within pairs are normal. The rank-based alternative discussed below, the Wilcoxon signed ranks test, assumes only that the distribution of differences within pairs be symmetric without requiring normality. The parametric two-sample procedure, the two-sample t-test, assumes both samples come from populations with a normal distribution and the same variance. The Mann-Whitney test, the rank-based procedure, assumes both distributions have the same shape, but any shape. The k-sample parametric (one-way ANOVA) and rank-based (Kruskal-Wallis) tests have the same assumptions, respectively, as their two-sample counterparts. All t- tests require continuous data, while the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests require only data of ordinal scale. 2 Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010) Conover (1999, page 269) begins his chapter on rank-based tests with a general observation: If data are numeric, and, furthermore are observations on random variables that have the normal distribution so that all of the assumptions of the usual parametric test are met, the loss of efficiency caused by using the methods of this chapter is surprisingly small. In those situations the relative efficiency of tests using only the ranks of the observations is frequently about .95, depending on the situation. (Relative efficiency is the ratio of sample sizes needed for two tests to attain the same power. When relative efficiency is close to one, the two tests being compared are about equally efficient in their use of the data.) When the data are not normal, the t-test still performs reasonably well (Posten, 1979; Pearson and Please, 1975), but rank-based methods are often superior (Ramsey and Schafer, 2002; McDougal and Rayner, 2004). When the data contain outliers the t-test is suspect, while rank-based methods are unaffected (because outliers have the same rank as any other large observation). When data contain outliers, some manner of nonparametric procedure is almost mandatory. Rank-based methods can also handle certain types of censored data. Ramsey and Schafer (2002) present a case in which students are given a task to complete and at the end of five minutes a few of the students have not completed the task. For those who did not complete the task, completion times are censored; only a lower bound for the true completion time is known. Without complete observations, the t-test cannot be performed, but the rank-based method need only assign the largest ranks to the censored observations. 3. The common structure of many large sample tests Rossman and Chance (1999) write: We want students to see that the reasoning and structure of statistical inference procedures are consistent, regardless of the specific technique being studied. For example, students should see the sampling distributions for several types of statistics to appreciate their similarities and understand the common reasoning process underlying the inference formulas. In addition, students can view these formulas as special cases of one basic idea. …By understanding this general structure of the formulas, students can concentrate on understanding one big idea, rather than trying to memorize a series of seemingly unrelated formulas. Students can then focus on the type and number of variables involved in order to properly decide which formula is applicable. This approach also empowers students to extend their knowledge beyond the inference procedures covered in the introductory course. For nonparametric statisticians, most rank-based hypothesis tests are based on the permutation distribution of the ranks under the null hypothesis. This procedure is based on enumerating all possible, equally likely, arrangements of the ranks under the null 3 Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010) hypothesis. Although not always identified as permutation tests, many examples of this idea are both explicit and detailed in many textbooks (Randles and Wolfe, 1979; Hettmansperger, 1984; Lehmann, 1975). Simple functions of the ranks, such as the sum of the ranks for one group, are used to construct a sampling distribution from the enumerated ranks. Large sample formulas are just approximations to permutation tests when the sample size becomes both so large that explicit enumeration becomes cumbersome and so large that the central limit theorem can be relied on to generate an approximately normal test statistic. Many introductory statistics teachers at the high school, the community college, and even the college level are mathematicians or mathematics educators who have had little statistical training and may have heard of nonparametric tests but have never worked with these tests. Permutation tests are almost never discussed in introductory statistics textbooks. Even the basic elements needed, counting techniques, play a smaller role in each new edition of introductory textbooks (whether this trend is good or bad is another topic). On the other hand, all introductory textbooks discuss the role of sample size and the central limit theorem in developing approximately normal (or t) sampling distributions. Because of this, some instructors rarely think of rank-based test statistics as large sample approximations to permutation distributions, nor do they automatically understand the motivation for the statistics traditionally used to summarize ranked data. For these colleagues it may be more natural to emphasize similarities
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